Network Patching Engineer in Warsaw

Network Patching Engineer | €340 per day (Inside IR35) | 6 months | January start | Poland-based, remote

We're looking for an experienced Network Patching Engineer to support a large-scale network upgrade programme across a distributed estate of 10,000-20,000 devices. You'll carry out approved patching and upgrade activities safely, validating service health before and after every change and troubleshooting methodically when things don’t go to plan. This is a hands-on delivery role, so you must be comfortable executing controlled network changes at scale. Key responsibilities

Execute approved network patching and firmware/software upgrade activities in line with the agreed change plan Review change plans, identify missing prerequisites or unsafe assumptions, and raise them before work begins Complete pre-change health checks and capture a reliable baseline before every change Follow process scripts and change control procedures accurately Run defined post-change tests, compare results against the baseline and recognise abnormal results Troubleshoot using monitoring, logs, configuration comparison and connectivity tests Work across a mix of technologies, mostly Cisco, plus F5 and Check Point What we’re looking for

Practical experience in network patching, upgrades or change implementation in a large or comparable estate Network routing protocols and routing troubleshooting LAN technologies and switching WAN connectivity and carrier dependencies Firewall and security policy concepts Load balancer and traffic-flow concepts High availability and failover Network monitoring, alarms and logging